It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
- We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
- Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
- Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
- It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
- It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
- A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
- The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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